The Illustrated Man

Summary: Essay discusses the themes from "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury.

In The Illustrated Man, the author Ray Bradbury wrote with many different
themes including imagination, science and technology, and faith and religion. In many of
the stories the plot shows Bradburys' view on the theme. Bradburys' view on imagination
was that it can be a good thing but also that sometimes it can hurt us. Science and
technology he sees as something we don't really need, as something that could
become more powerful than man, and as something that quite possibly could replace
mankind. As for faith and religion, he sees faith as something necessary to live, and
religion as something that goes hand in hand with faith.

Throughout The Illustrated Man Bradbury wrote about some of the positive and
negative effects of having a good imagination. For example in the story "The Rocket"
Fiorelli Bodoni is too poor to buy a trip in a rocket so he...